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CSS 2.1 emerges as official Web standard
Jun 8th
CSS 2.1 emerges as official Web standard
Version 2.1 of CSS governs a myriad of details about formatting Web pages. (Credit: screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET) Much of the Web world has moved on to CSS 3, but today the World Wide Web Consortium has declared the CSS 2.1 standard for Web page formatting to be done. In W3C standards lingo, CSS 2.1 has reached “recommendation” stage . Phillipe Le Hegaret, leader of the HTML working at …
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SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 Integration Services – Consuming Web Services Using Script Task
Jun 7th
SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 Integration Services – Consuming Web Services Using Script Task
Web services can be easily leveraged in SQL Server 2008 R2 Integration Services by employing Web Services Task.
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Clearwire Lowered Credit Standards to Boost Subscriber Growth
Jun 6th
Clearwire Lowered Credit Standards to Boost Subscriber Growth
USA based WiMAX network, Clearwire has denied that it deliberately lowered the quality score it used to asses new subscribers in an effort to boost flagging subscriber growth, but did accept that its credit standards are flexible.
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Web Host Hostway Renews Long Term Lease at Chicago Data Center
Jun 4th
Web Host Hostway Renews Long Term Lease at Chicago Data Center
June 3, 2011 — Web hosting provider Hostway has signed a new long term renewal lease for 52,660 square feet at the Boeing Building, located at 100 North Riverside Plaza in Chicago.
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Research and Markets: Professional Web Video. Plan, Produce, Distribute, Promote, and Monetize Quality Video
Jun 3rd
Research and Markets: Professional Web Video. Plan, Produce, Distribute, Promote, and Monetize Quality Video
Research and Markets has announced the addition of Elsevier Science and Technology’s new report “Professional Web Video. Plan, Produce, Distribute, Promote, and Monetize Quality Video” to their offering.
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Troubling IEEE Standards on Environmentally Preferable Imaging Equipment and TVs Go to Ballot …
Jun 2nd
Troubling IEEE Standards on Environmentally Preferable Imaging Equipment and TVs Go to Ballot …
Two IEEE standards on setting criteria for environmentally preferable electronic equipment will soon be balloted. Although standards apply only to imaging equipment and televisions, their impact on electronics industry will be much broader. Both contain criteria to remove all halogens, and expand RoHS and REACH requirements through elimination of exemptions and removal of SVHCs from products. To …
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Rapid Browser Development Challenges Web Developers
Jun 1st
Rapid Browser Development Challenges Web Developers
Esther Schindler writes “Feeling a little overwhelmed by changing web standards and new browser choices? You aren’t the only one. Mozilla is launching development tracks for the next two editions of its Firefox Web browser immediately, with hopes to push both into general release before the end of the year. This while Microsoft previews Internet Explorer 10 on the heels of its IE9 release, and …
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Awesomium Windowless Web Browser Framework Ported to Linux
May 31st
Awesomium Windowless Web Browser Framework Ported to Linux
UbuntuVibes: This is one awesome piece of tech.
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Review: Hype Animates the Web, No Flash Necessary
May 26th
Review: Hype Animates the Web, No Flash Necessary
To create animations using web standards like HTML5, CSS 3 and JavaScript requires writing code. That’s fine for programmers who love nothing more than the blank space of a new document in their favorite text editor, but it’s a problem for designers accustomed to the visual, drag-and-drop workflow of animation apps like Flash. There’s nothing [...]
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Sarah Palin’s Web Guru Has Some Opinions About Other Republicans
May 25th
Sarah Palin’s Web Guru Has Some Opinions About Other Republicans
Rebecca Mansour is Sarah Palin’s web guru, aggressive online defender, and maybe a little bit of a troll. She’s somewhat elusive, and the subject of much fascination among people in the part of the Venn diagram where interests in Palin minutae, Twitter, and gossip overlap. The Atlantic Wire falls into that space, naturally, and that’s why The Daily Caller’s Jonathan Strong’s collection of …
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Guaranteach, Web-based Learning Service, Acquired by Sophia
May 24th
Guaranteach, Web-based Learning Service, Acquired by Sophia
Innosight Ventures announced that one of its portfolio companies, Guaranteach, a web-based service that provides math video tutorials along with assessment tools to K-12 students and teachers, has been acquired by Sophia, an online social teaching and learning platform that offers content to enhance the learning process.
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IE6 users thrown out of WordPress
May 23rd
IE6 users thrown out of WordPress
In an update to its blogging software, WordPress has discontinued support for old web browsers. The move in particular targets Internet Explorer 6 – the 10-year-old web browser long superceded, but still used in lots of corporate environments. IE6 users will now not be able to log in to WordPress. Instead they’ll be encouraged to upgrade to a more recent version of Microsoft’s web browser. A …
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Athletes must meet academic standards
May 22nd
Athletes must meet academic standards
Pending final passage by the Louisiana House of Representatives, HB 31 would require all students in grades 6-12 to earn at least a “C” average in order to participate in interscholastic athletics.
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What LinkedIn IPO means for the Web
May 21st
What LinkedIn IPO means for the Web
When the dust settled on LinkedIn’s IPO on Thursday afternoon, the company was valued at $8.9 billion, making it worth more than household names like JC Penney, Electronic Arts and Chipotle.
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Web Host HostGee Completes SAS 70 Type II Audit
May 19th
Web Host HostGee Completes SAS 70 Type II Audit
May 18, 2011 — Web hosting provider HostGee announced on Wednesday that it has received the SAS 70 Type II certification.
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SAP and Amazon Web Services Partner to Deliver Enterprise Solutions in the Cloud
May 18th
SAP and Amazon Web Services Partner to Deliver Enterprise Solutions in the Cloud
As part of a continued effort to provide customers flexibility in software deployment options and innovations in cloud-computing, SAP AG and Amazon Web Services today announced that a variety of SAP® solutions, including SAP® Rapid Deployment solutions and SAP® BusinessObjects⢠solutions, are now available on demand via Amazon Web Services .
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Netflix streaming overtakes Web surfing as biggest source of Internet traffic in North America
May 17th
Netflix streaming overtakes Web surfing as biggest source of Internet traffic in North America
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Move over, Web surfing. Netflix movies now take up more of the Internet pipes going into North American homes.
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Evolving Standards in Accessibility
May 16th
Evolving Standards in Accessibility
BS 8878 Web accessibility, Code of Practice is the first British Standard to address the growing challenge of digital inclusion and is referenced in the UK’s government’s e-Accessibility Action plan.Its publication is especially timely given that the new Equality Act 2010 places an obligation on information providers to ensure their web products are accessible.
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It’s Time for Government to Back the Semantic Web
May 15th
It’s Time for Government to Back the Semantic Web
ConsortiumInfo.org: “Before our systems can go at it, the Semantic Web standards developed by the World Wide Web Consortium have to be implemented in enough Web pages to make it worthwhile. If you’re sensing that we have a chicken and egg problem here, you’re right on target.”
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W3C: new members extend Web standards work
May 11th
W3C: new members extend Web standards work
The World Wide Web Consortium’s fresh blood includes China Unicom, Netflix, LG Electronics, Facebook, and Zynga. Originally posted at Deep Tech
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Web Host NetStandard Kansas City Data Center Receives SSAE 16 Certification
May 10th
Web Host NetStandard Kansas City Data Center Receives SSAE 16 Certification
May 9, 2011 — Web host and colocation provider NetStandard announced on Thursday that it has successfully completed its first SSAE 16 audit standard in its Kansas City data center.
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W3C to develop peer-to-peer browser standards
May 7th
W3C to develop peer-to-peer browser standards
World Wide Web Consortium plans to develop standards to enable direct peer-to-peer communications between browsers, without the need to go through centralized servers.
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KT’s Profit Rises 85% on Smartphone Sales, Web TV Demand
May 6th
KT’s Profit Rises 85% on Smartphone Sales, Web TV Demand
KT Corp., South Korea’s largest phone and Internet company, posted an 85 percent jump in first-quarter profit, fueled by smartphone sales and demand for Web-connected television services.
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